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Sapiens

kirjoittanut Yuval Noah Harari • 2011

The one skill that let humans conquer the planet: inventing things we all pretend are real.

4.33

1 000 000+

🌍 Big History 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology

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Sapiens

The one skill that let humans conquer the planet: inventing things we all pretend are real.

kirjoittanut Yuval Noah Harari 2011 456 sivua

4.33

1 000 000+ arvostelua

🌍 Big History 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology

Freakonomics

kirjoittanut Steven D. Levitt • 2005

Data, not experts, explains why crime fell, why teachers cheat, and why agents undersell your house.

4.01

900 000+

🍿 Pop Economics 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🎯 Incentive Design

Immersiiviset

Freakonomics

Data, not experts, explains why crime fell, why teachers cheat, and why agents undersell your house.

kirjoittanut Steven D. Levitt 2005 352 sivua

4.01

900 000+ arvostelua

🍿 Pop Economics 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🎯 Incentive Design

Leimahduspiste

kirjoittanut Malcolm Gladwell • 2000

Three rules govern social epidemics, and the people who start them aren't who you'd expect.

4.01

800 000+

🦠 Social Contagion 🗣️ Word Of Mouth 🧠 Behavioral Influence

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Leimahduspiste

Three rules govern social epidemics, and the people who start them aren't who you'd expect.

kirjoittanut Malcolm Gladwell 2000 204 sivua

4.01

800 000+ arvostelua

🦠 Social Contagion 🗣️ Word Of Mouth 🧠 Behavioral Influence

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

kirjoittanut Rebecca Skloot • 2010

Her cells built the polio vaccine. She was a Black tobacco farmer who was never asked.

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800 000+

🏥 Medical Ethics 🩺 Medical Racism 🔬 Cellular Biology

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Her cells built the polio vaccine. She was a Black tobacco farmer who was never asked.

kirjoittanut Rebecca Skloot 2010 362 sivua

4.13

800 000+ arvostelua

🏥 Medical Ethics 🩺 Medical Racism 🔬 Cellular Biology

Välähdys

kirjoittanut Malcolm Gladwell • 2005

Rapid decisions can beat careful analysis: they need structure, not more data.

3.96

600 000+

🧠 Behavioral Psychology 📊 Decision Science ⚡ Intuition Research

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Välähdys

Rapid decisions can beat careful analysis: they need structure, not more data.

kirjoittanut Malcolm Gladwell 2005 296 sivua

3.96

600 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Behavioral Psychology 📊 Decision Science ⚡ Intuition Research

Guns, Germs, and Steel

kirjoittanut Jared Diamond • 2005

Eurasia had wheat and an east-west axis. The Americas didn't. Geography decided who conquered whom.

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400 000+

🗺️ Macrohistory 🌍 Geographic Determinism 🧬 Biogeography

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Guns, Germs, and Steel

Eurasia had wheat and an east-west axis. The Americas didn't. Geography decided who conquered whom.

kirjoittanut Jared Diamond 2005 498 sivua

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400 000+ arvostelua

🗺️ Macrohistory 🌍 Geographic Determinism 🧬 Biogeography

Elon Musk

kirjoittanut Ashlee Vance • 2015

$180 million on rockets and electric cars, saved on Christmas Eve by hours.

4.12

400 000+

🔧 Tech Entrepreneurship 📖 Startup Biographies 🧠 Mental Models

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Elon Musk

$180 million on rockets and electric cars, saved on Christmas Eve by hours.

kirjoittanut Ashlee Vance 2015 392 sivua

4.12

400 000+ arvostelua

🔧 Tech Entrepreneurship 📖 Startup Biographies 🧠 Mental Models

A Short History of Nearly Everything

kirjoittanut Bill Bryson • 2004

What science knows about the universe, and the accident-prone humans who figured it out.

4.22

400 000+

A Short History of Nearly Everything

What science knows about the universe, and the accident-prone humans who figured it out.

kirjoittanut Bill Bryson 2004 544 sivua

4.22

400 000+ arvostelua

Puhetta tuntemattomien kanssa

kirjoittanut Malcolm Gladwell • 2019

The signals we use to read strangers are mostly noise, and Sandra Bland paid the price.

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300 000+

🧠 Social Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Biases 🎭 Deception Detection

Puhetta tuntemattomien kanssa Yhteenveto

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Puhetta tuntemattomien kanssa

The signals we use to read strangers are mostly noise, and Sandra Bland paid the price.

kirjoittanut Malcolm Gladwell 2019 675 sivua

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300 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Social Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Biases 🎭 Deception Detection

Homo Deus

kirjoittanut Yuval Noah Harari • 2015

We tamed hunger and war. Now we chase immortality and godhood. The chase may end us.

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🔭 Big History 🔮 Futurism 🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Homo Deus

We tamed hunger and war. Now we chase immortality and godhood. The chase may end us.

kirjoittanut Yuval Noah Harari 2015 449 sivua

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200 000+ arvostelua

🔭 Big History 🔮 Futurism 🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Why We Sleep

kirjoittanut Matthew Walker • 2017

Nineteen hours awake equals legal drunkenness. What sleep does, and what its loss costs us.

4.37

200 000+

🧬 Sleep Science 🕰️ Circadian Biology 🏥 Public Health

Why We Sleep

Nineteen hours awake equals legal drunkenness. What sleep does, and what its loss costs us.

kirjoittanut Matthew Walker 2017 368 sivua

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200 000+ arvostelua

🧬 Sleep Science 🕰️ Circadian Biology 🏥 Public Health

Being Mortal

kirjoittanut Atul Gawande • 2014

Getting old is not a medical problem. Modern medicine treats it like one anyway.

4.49

200 000+

🏥 End-Of-Life Care 👴 Aging With Dignity 💀 Facing Mortality

Being Mortal

Getting old is not a medical problem. Modern medicine treats it like one anyway.

kirjoittanut Atul Gawande 2014 282 sivua

4.49

200 000+ arvostelua

🏥 End-Of-Life Care 👴 Aging With Dignity 💀 Facing Mortality

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

kirjoittanut Richard P. Feynman • 1985

Safe-cracking, bongos, and a fatal O-ring: a Nobel laureate's life of fearless curiosity.

4.26

200 000+

🧮 Theoretical Physics ☢️ Midcentury Science ⚖️ Scientific Integrity

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

Safe-cracking, bongos, and a fatal O-ring: a Nobel laureate's life of fearless curiosity.

kirjoittanut Richard P. Feynman 1985 352 sivua

4.26

200 000+ arvostelua

🧮 Theoretical Physics ☢️ Midcentury Science ⚖️ Scientific Integrity

Kaikkiruokaisen dilemma

kirjoittanut Michael Pollan • 2006

Corn and oil, not sunlight, power what we eat. Four meals traced to their hidden origins.

4.19

200 000+

🏭 Food Systems 🌽 Industrial Agriculture 🌾 Sustainable Farming

Kaikkiruokaisen dilemma

Corn and oil, not sunlight, power what we eat. Four meals traced to their hidden origins.

kirjoittanut Michael Pollan 2006 710 sivua

4.19

200 000+ arvostelua

🏭 Food Systems 🌽 Industrial Agriculture 🌾 Sustainable Farming

David and Goliath

kirjoittanut Malcolm Gladwell • 2013

Giants don't always win: the hidden weapons of underdogs, and why too much power backfires.

3.97

100 000+

💎 Hidden Strengths 🌱 Adversity Advantage 📉 Diminishing Returns

David and Goliath

Giants don't always win: the hidden weapons of underdogs, and why too much power backfires.

kirjoittanut Malcolm Gladwell 2013 305 sivua

3.97

100 000+ arvostelua

💎 Hidden Strengths 🌱 Adversity Advantage 📉 Diminishing Returns

21 oppituntia maailman tilasta

kirjoittanut Yuval Noah Harari • 2018

How to think in a century where jobs vanish, truths splinter, and biology becomes programmable.

4.15

100 000+

🧭 Big History 🤖 Future Of Work ⚖️ Ai Ethics

21 oppituntia maailman tilasta Yhteenveto

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21 oppituntia maailman tilasta

How to think in a century where jobs vanish, truths splinter, and biology becomes programmable.

kirjoittanut Yuval Noah Harari 2018 372 sivua

4.15

100 000+ arvostelua

🧭 Big History 🤖 Future Of Work ⚖️ Ai Ethics

Psykopaattitesti

kirjoittanut Jon Ronson • 2011

A journalist learns to spot psychopaths. Then the checklist starts spotting him.

3.95

100 000+

🧠 Forensic Psychology 📰 Investigative Journalism 🎭 Psychopathy

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Psykopaattitesti

A journalist learns to spot psychopaths. Then the checklist starts spotting him.

kirjoittanut Jon Ronson 2011 272 sivua

3.95

100 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Forensic Psychology 📰 Investigative Journalism 🎭 Psychopathy

Emotional Intelligence

kirjoittanut Daniel Goleman • 1995

Your emotional brain reacts before thought. That half-second shapes your career and relationships.

4.06

100 000+

🏫 Social-Emotional Learning 🧠 Emotional Regulation 🧬 Brain And Emotion

Emotional Intelligence

Your emotional brain reacts before thought. That half-second shapes your career and relationships.

kirjoittanut Daniel Goleman 1995 351 sivua

4.06

100 000+ arvostelua

🏫 Social-Emotional Learning 🧠 Emotional Regulation 🧬 Brain And Emotion

SuperFreakonomics

kirjoittanut Steven D. Levitt • 2009

Incentives, not morality, explain prostitution, terrorism, and climate change. The data proves it.

4.00

100 000+

🧠 Behavioral Economics 📊 Pop Economics 🔄 Unintended Consequences

SuperFreakonomics

Incentives, not morality, explain prostitution, terrorism, and climate change. The data proves it.

kirjoittanut Steven D. Levitt 2009 288 sivua

4.00

100 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Behavioral Economics 📊 Pop Economics 🔄 Unintended Consequences

Predictably Irrational

kirjoittanut Dan Ariely • 2008

Why you overpay, procrastinate, and cheat just a little (and how to outsmart your own brain).

4.12

100 000+

🧠 Behavioral Economics 📊 Decision Psychology 💲 Pricing Psychology

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Predictably Irrational

Why you overpay, procrastinate, and cheat just a little (and how to outsmart your own brain).

kirjoittanut Dan Ariely 2008 349 sivua

4.12

100 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Behavioral Economics 📊 Decision Psychology 💲 Pricing Psychology

Musta joutsen

kirjoittanut Nassim Nicholas Taleb • 2007

The bell curve is a map that fails exactly where the terrain gets dangerous.

3.96

100 000+

🛡️ Risk Management 🎲 Tail Risk 🧠 Cognitive Biases

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Musta joutsen

The bell curve is a map that fails exactly where the terrain gets dangerous.

kirjoittanut Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2007 480 sivua

3.96

100 000+ arvostelua

🛡️ Risk Management 🎲 Tail Risk 🧠 Cognitive Biases

Maantieteen vangit

kirjoittanut Tim Marshall • 2015

Geography ties presidents' hands more than ideology. The map cornering Napoleon is cornering Putin.

4.19

100 000+

🌍 Geopolitics 🛢️ Natural Resources ⚔️ Military Strategy

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Maantieteen vangit

Geography ties presidents' hands more than ideology. The map cornering Napoleon is cornering Putin.

kirjoittanut Tim Marshall 2015 319 sivua

4.19

100 000+ arvostelua

🌍 Geopolitics 🛢️ Natural Resources ⚔️ Military Strategy

Breath

kirjoittanut James Nestor • 2020

You take 25,000 breaths a day. Most of them are making you sick.

4.14

100 000+

🫁 Respiratory Health 🌬️ Breathing Techniques 👃 Nasal Breathing

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Breath

You take 25,000 breaths a day. Most of them are making you sick.

kirjoittanut James Nestor 2020 280 sivua

4.14

100 000+ arvostelua

🫁 Respiratory Health 🌬️ Breathing Techniques 👃 Nasal Breathing

What the Dog Saw

kirjoittanut Malcolm Gladwell • 2009

Two seconds of silent video predict a teacher's full semester rating. What else we misjudge.

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100 000+

✍️ Essay Collections 🗞️ Longform Journalism 💡 Counterintuitive Ideas

What the Dog Saw

Two seconds of silent video predict a teacher's full semester rating. What else we misjudge.

kirjoittanut Malcolm Gladwell 2009 319 sivua

3.85

100 000+ arvostelua

✍️ Essay Collections 🗞️ Longform Journalism 💡 Counterintuitive Ideas

Nudge

kirjoittanut Richard H. Thaler • 2008

Why you stick with defaults: the invisible forces shaping every decision, and how to steer them.

3.84

95 000+

🧠 Behavioral Economics 🧩 Cognitive Biases 🎛️ Behavioral Design

Nudge

Why you stick with defaults: the invisible forces shaping every decision, and how to steer them.

kirjoittanut Richard H. Thaler 2008 384 sivua

3.84

95 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Behavioral Economics 🧩 Cognitive Biases 🎛️ Behavioral Design

Flow

kirjoittanut Mihály Csíkszentmihályi • 1990

The most fulfilling moments come not from rest, but from pushing yourself to your limit.

4.11

89 000+

🧠 Positive Psychology 🎯 Attention Management 🏔️ Peak Performance

Flow

The most fulfilling moments come not from rest, but from pushing yourself to your limit.

kirjoittanut Mihály Csíkszentmihályi 1990 322 sivua

4.11

89 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Positive Psychology 🎯 Attention Management 🏔️ Peak Performance

Come As You Are

kirjoittanut Emily Nagoski • 2015

The science of female desire overturns the dominant story. Your body works; learn what blocks it.

4.28

87 000+

🚺 Female Sexuality 😰 Stress And Desire 💜 Body Acceptance

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Come As You Are

The science of female desire overturns the dominant story. Your body works; learn what blocks it.

kirjoittanut Emily Nagoski 2015 400 sivua

4.28

87 000+ arvostelua

🚺 Female Sexuality 😰 Stress And Desire 💜 Body Acceptance

How to Change Your Mind

kirjoittanut Michael Pollan • 2018

Psychedelics quiet the brain's ego network. Depression, addiction, and fear of death dissolve.

4.27

85 000+

🍄 Psychedelic Therapy 🔬 Psychedelic Science 🌀 Altered States

How to Change Your Mind

Psychedelics quiet the brain's ego network. Depression, addiction, and fear of death dissolve.

kirjoittanut Michael Pollan 2018 464 sivua

4.27

85 000+ arvostelua

🍄 Psychedelic Therapy 🔬 Psychedelic Science 🌀 Altered States

Range

kirjoittanut David Epstein • 2019

Childhood specialization is overrated. Generalists who sample widely solve the hardest problems.

4.13

80 000+

🌱 Late Bloomers 🧩 Interdisciplinary Thinking 🧠 Desirable Difficulties

Range

Childhood specialization is overrated. Generalists who sample widely solve the hardest problems.

kirjoittanut David Epstein 2019 352 sivua

4.13

80 000+ arvostelua

🌱 Late Bloomers 🧩 Interdisciplinary Thinking 🧠 Desirable Difficulties

Varastettu keskittymiskyky

kirjoittanut Johann Hari • 2022

You touch your phone 2,617 times a day. That's not a habit. It's a business model.

4.22

80 000+

📊 Attention Economy 🕵️ Surveillance Capitalism 📨 Information Overload

Varastettu keskittymiskyky

You touch your phone 2,617 times a day. That's not a habit. It's a business model.

kirjoittanut Johann Hari 2022 348 sivua

4.22

80 000+ arvostelua

📊 Attention Economy 🕵️ Surveillance Capitalism 📨 Information Overload

The Checklist Manifesto

kirjoittanut Atul Gawande • 2009

Why experts miss the obvious, and how a piece of paper catches what brilliance overlooks.

4.04

76 000+

🛡️ High-Reliability Teams 🔍 Human Factors ⚠️ Error Proofing

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The Checklist Manifesto

Why experts miss the obvious, and how a piece of paper catches what brilliance overlooks.

kirjoittanut Atul Gawande 2009 215 sivua

4.04

76 000+ arvostelua

🛡️ High-Reliability Teams 🔍 Human Factors ⚠️ Error Proofing

Lab Girl

kirjoittanut Hope Jahren • 2016

Bipolar, broke, with an oddball lab partner: a geobiologist's devotion to what plants know.

3.98

72 000+

👩‍🔬 Women In STEM 🌿 Botanical Writing 🔬 Science Memoirs

Lab Girl

Bipolar, broke, with an oddball lab partner: a geobiologist's devotion to what plants know.

kirjoittanut Hope Jahren 2016 290 sivua

3.98

72 000+ arvostelua

👩‍🔬 Women In STEM 🌿 Botanical Writing 🔬 Science Memoirs

The Righteous Mind

kirjoittanut Jonathan Haidt • 2012

Reason didn't evolve to find truth. It evolved to defend whatever your group already believes.

4.19

66 000+

🧠 Moral Psychology 🔴 Political Polarization ⚡ Moral Intuition

The Righteous Mind

Reason didn't evolve to find truth. It evolved to defend whatever your group already believes.

kirjoittanut Jonathan Haidt 2012 530 sivua

4.19

66 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Moral Psychology 🔴 Political Polarization ⚡ Moral Intuition

Why Nations Fail

kirjoittanut Daron Acemoğlu • 2012

If geography explained wealth, North and South Korea would be the same country.

4.09

64 000+

🏛️ Political Economy 📈 Development Economics 🏗️ Institutional Design

Why Nations Fail

If geography explained wealth, North and South Korea would be the same country.

kirjoittanut Daron Acemoğlu 2012 544 sivua

4.09

64 000+ arvostelua

🏛️ Political Economy 📈 Development Economics 🏗️ Institutional Design

The Whole-Brain Child

kirjoittanut Daniel J. Siegel • 2011

Tantrums reveal a brain still under construction. Twelve strategies that teach instead of punish.

4.26

60 000+

🧠 Child Development 🧬 Neuroscience Parenting 🌊 Emotional Regulation

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The Whole-Brain Child

Tantrums reveal a brain still under construction. Twelve strategies that teach instead of punish.

kirjoittanut Daniel J. Siegel 2011 192 sivua

4.26

60 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Child Development 🧬 Neuroscience Parenting 🌊 Emotional Regulation

Antifragiili

kirjoittanut Nassim Nicholas Taleb • 2012

Predicting catastrophe is impossible. Designing a life that profits from chaos is not.

4.10

58 000+

🔒 Risk Management 🧩 Systems Thinking 🔄 Trial And Error

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Antifragiili

Predicting catastrophe is impossible. Designing a life that profits from chaos is not.

kirjoittanut Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2012 493 sivua

4.10

58 000+ arvostelua

🔒 Risk Management 🧩 Systems Thinking 🔄 Trial And Error

Silent Spring

kirjoittanut Rachel Carson • 1962

A biologist traced one poison through water, soil, bird, and bone, and refused to stay silent.

4.06

55 000+

🌍 Environmental Activism ☣️ Chemical Pollution 🔗 Ecosystem Thinking

Silent Spring

A biologist traced one poison through water, soil, bird, and bone, and refused to stay silent.

kirjoittanut Rachel Carson 1962 400 sivua

4.06

55 000+ arvostelua

🌍 Environmental Activism ☣️ Chemical Pollution 🔗 Ecosystem Thinking

Waking Up

kirjoittanut Sam Harris • 2014

Real spirituality needs no faith, no afterlife, no self. Just a close look at consciousness itself.

3.90

51 000+

🧘 Secular Spirituality 🧠 Contemplative Neuroscience 🔍 Consciousness Studies

Waking Up

Real spirituality needs no faith, no afterlife, no self. Just a close look at consciousness itself.

kirjoittanut Sam Harris 2014 258 sivua

3.90

51 000+ arvostelua

🧘 Secular Spirituality 🧠 Contemplative Neuroscience 🔍 Consciousness Studies

The Design of Everyday Things

kirjoittanut Donald A. Norman • 1988

Why you can't figure out a simple door: the design classic that blames objects, not people.

4.15

48 000+

🖥️ User Experience 📐 Product Design 🧠 Design Psychology

The Design of Everyday Things

Why you can't figure out a simple door: the design classic that blames objects, not people.

kirjoittanut Donald A. Norman 1988 257 sivua

4.15

48 000+ arvostelua

🖥️ User Experience 📐 Product Design 🧠 Design Psychology

The Happiness Hypothesis

kirjoittanut Jonathan Haidt • 2006

Your reason is not the driver; ancient wisdom and modern psychology agree on what is.

4.09

45 000+

😊 Positive Psychology ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🏛️ Ancient Wisdom

The Happiness Hypothesis

Your reason is not the driver; ancient wisdom and modern psychology agree on what is.

kirjoittanut Jonathan Haidt 2006 297 sivua

4.09

45 000+ arvostelua

😊 Positive Psychology ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🏛️ Ancient Wisdom

Cribsheet

kirjoittanut Emily Oster • 2019

An economist's findings on sleep, feeding, and daycare: what the data says about early parenthood.

4.13

45 000+

📊 Data-Driven Parenting 👶 New Parents 🧒 Early Childhood

Cribsheet

An economist's findings on sleep, feeding, and daycare: what the data says about early parenthood.

kirjoittanut Emily Oster 2019 352 sivua

4.13

45 000+ arvostelua

📊 Data-Driven Parenting 👶 New Parents 🧒 Early Childhood

The Art of Thinking Clearly

kirjoittanut Rolf Dobelli • 2011

Dating is a market with supply, demand, and currency. Learn the rules before you make a bad trade.

3.85

41 000+

🧮 Sexual Economics 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 📈 Hypergamy

The Art of Thinking Clearly

Dating is a market with supply, demand, and currency. Learn the rules before you make a bad trade.

kirjoittanut Rolf Dobelli 2011 384 sivua

3.85

41 000+ arvostelua

🧮 Sexual Economics 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 📈 Hypergamy

Murtaudu ulos vanhasta itsestäsi

kirjoittanut Joe Dispenza • 2012

A four-week meditation protocol to rewire your brain and dismantle the self that's holding you back.

4.13

40 000+

🧠 Subconscious Rewiring 🎯 Identity Change 🧘 Meditation Practice

Murtaudu ulos vanhasta itsestäsi Yhteenveto

Immersiiviset

Murtaudu ulos vanhasta itsestäsi

A four-week meditation protocol to rewire your brain and dismantle the self that's holding you back.

kirjoittanut Joe Dispenza 2012 329 sivua

4.13

40 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Subconscious Rewiring 🎯 Identity Change 🧘 Meditation Practice

It Didn't Start with You

kirjoittanut Mark Wolynn • 2016

Your worst fears may not be yours. They could belong to your grandmother.

3.55

39 000+

🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🔗 Family Systems 🧫 Epigenetics

It Didn't Start with You

Your worst fears may not be yours. They could belong to your grandmother.

kirjoittanut Mark Wolynn 2016 256 sivua

3.55

39 000+ arvostelua

🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🔗 Family Systems 🧫 Epigenetics

When the Body Says No

kirjoittanut Gabor Maté • 2003

Learn to say no before your body does: the emotional roots of chronic illness.

4.17

36 000+

🧠 Mind-Body Medicine 🏥 Chronic Illness 🚧 Emotional Boundaries

When the Body Says No

Learn to say no before your body does: the emotional roots of chronic illness.

kirjoittanut Gabor Maté 2003 320 sivua

4.17

36 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Mind-Body Medicine 🏥 Chronic Illness 🚧 Emotional Boundaries

What Every Body is Saying

kirjoittanut Joe Navarro • 2008

Start at the feet, not the face: an FBI agent's method for reading what people feel.

3.91

35 000+

🧍 Body Language 👀 Behavioral Observation 🕵️ Reading People

Immersiiviset

What Every Body is Saying

Start at the feet, not the face: an FBI agent's method for reading what people feel.

kirjoittanut Joe Navarro 2008 272 sivua

3.91

35 000+ arvostelua

🧍 Body Language 👀 Behavioral Observation 🕵️ Reading People

The Girls of Atomic City

kirjoittanut Denise Kiernan • 2013

The young women of Oak Ridge built the atomic bomb. None of them knew it.

3.73

32 000+

🏭 Manhattan Project 👩‍🔧 Women In Wartime ☢️ Atomic Age

The Girls of Atomic City

The young women of Oak Ridge built the atomic bomb. None of them knew it.

kirjoittanut Denise Kiernan 2013 373 sivua

3.73

32 000+ arvostelua

🏭 Manhattan Project 👩‍🔧 Women In Wartime ☢️ Atomic Age

Elämä 3.0

kirjoittanut Max Tegmark • 2017

Superintelligence is coming. The problem isn't building it; it's making sure it wants what we want.

3.99

27 000+

🧭 Ai Ethics 🎯 Ai Alignment 🌍 Future Of Humanity

Elämä 3.0

Superintelligence is coming. The problem isn't building it; it's making sure it wants what we want.

kirjoittanut Max Tegmark 2017 364 sivua

3.99

27 000+ arvostelua

🧭 Ai Ethics 🎯 Ai Alignment 🌍 Future Of Humanity

Why Buddhism is True

kirjoittanut Robert Wright • 2017

Evolution tuned your feelings to mislead you. A science-backed case for the Buddhist fix.

4.02

27 000+

🧘 Secular Buddhism 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🧠 Mindfulness Meditation

Why Buddhism is True

Evolution tuned your feelings to mislead you. A science-backed case for the Buddhist fix.

kirjoittanut Robert Wright 2017 336 sivua

4.02

27 000+ arvostelua

🧘 Secular Buddhism 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🧠 Mindfulness Meditation

The Lucifer Effect

kirjoittanut Philip G. Zimbardo • 2007

Ordinary students, fake prison, abusive in six days. The situation, not character, corrupts.

3.90

27 000+

🧠 Social Psychology ⚖️ Power And Corruption 😶 Dehumanization

Immersiiviset

The Lucifer Effect

Ordinary students, fake prison, abusive in six days. The situation, not character, corrupts.

kirjoittanut Philip G. Zimbardo 2007 551 sivua

3.90

27 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Social Psychology ⚖️ Power And Corruption 😶 Dehumanization

Clean Code

kirjoittanut Robert C. Martin • 2007

Reading code dominates a developer's day; these rules keep your colleagues from cursing your name.

4.35

23 000+

🛠️ Software Craftsmanship 📖 Code Readability 🔄 Refactoring

Clean Code

Reading code dominates a developer's day; these rules keep your colleagues from cursing your name.

kirjoittanut Robert C. Martin 2007 464 sivua

4.35

23 000+ arvostelua

🛠️ Software Craftsmanship 📖 Code Readability 🔄 Refactoring

Make It Stick

kirjoittanut Peter C. Brown • 2014

Rereading feels good but does little. The counterintuitive habits that build knowledge that lasts.

4.15

22 000+

🔬 Learning Science 🧠 Retrieval Practice ⏳ Spaced Repetition

Make It Stick

Rereading feels good but does little. The counterintuitive habits that build knowledge that lasts.

kirjoittanut Peter C. Brown 2014 313 sivua

4.15

22 000+ arvostelua

🔬 Learning Science 🧠 Retrieval Practice ⏳ Spaced Repetition

Far From The Tree

kirjoittanut Andrew Solomon • 2012

Your child is deaf, a prodigy, or a criminal. None of it came from you.

4.27

22 000+

🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Neurodiversity ♿ Social Model Of Disability

Far From The Tree

Your child is deaf, a prodigy, or a criminal. None of it came from you.

kirjoittanut Andrew Solomon 2012 976 sivua

4.27

22 000+ arvostelua

🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Neurodiversity ♿ Social Model Of Disability

Superintelligenssi

kirjoittanut Nick Bostrom • 2014

A superhuman intelligence won't hate us. It will just want our atoms.

3.85

21 000+

🛡️ Ai Safety ⚠️ Existential Risk 🌍 Effective Altruism

Immersiiviset

Superintelligenssi

A superhuman intelligence won't hate us. It will just want our atoms.

kirjoittanut Nick Bostrom 2014 352 sivua

3.85

21 000+ arvostelua

🛡️ Ai Safety ⚠️ Existential Risk 🌍 Effective Altruism

Fast Like a Girl

kirjoittanut Mindy Pelz • 2022

Standard fasting wrecks women's hormones. Here's the cycle-synced protocol that heals instead.

4.21

20 000+

🕰️ Intermittent Fasting 👩 Women'S Health 🔁 Cycle Syncing

Fast Like a Girl

Standard fasting wrecks women's hormones. Here's the cycle-synced protocol that heals instead.

kirjoittanut Mindy Pelz 2022 329 sivua

4.21

20 000+ arvostelua

🕰️ Intermittent Fasting 👩 Women'S Health 🔁 Cycle Syncing

Inside of a Dog

kirjoittanut Alexandra Horowitz • 2009

Your dog inhabits a world of smell you cannot enter. Science can finally take you inside.

3.63

18 000+

🧠 Canine Cognition 👃 Animal Senses 🐕 Dog Behavior

Inside of a Dog

Your dog inhabits a world of smell you cannot enter. Science can finally take you inside.

kirjoittanut Alexandra Horowitz 2009 353 sivua

3.63

18 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Canine Cognition 👃 Animal Senses 🐕 Dog Behavior

Free

kirjoittanut Chris Anderson • 2009

Free is not a price point; it's a business model built on attention, trust, and the new scarcities.

3.88

17 000+

💻 Digital Economics 💰 Pricing Strategy 🧠 Behavioral Economics

Free

Free is not a price point; it's a business model built on attention, trust, and the new scarcities.

kirjoittanut Chris Anderson 2009 288 sivua

3.88

17 000+ arvostelua

💻 Digital Economics 💰 Pricing Strategy 🧠 Behavioral Economics

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

kirjoittanut Robert M. Sapolsky • 1993

Zebra stress lasts minutes. Yours lasts years. The biology of why that makes you sick.

4.17

17 000+

😰 Chronic Stress 🧬 Evolutionary Medicine 🧠 Mind Body Connection

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

Zebra stress lasts minutes. Yours lasts years. The biology of why that makes you sick.

kirjoittanut Robert M. Sapolsky 1993 560 sivua

4.17

17 000+ arvostelua

😰 Chronic Stress 🧬 Evolutionary Medicine 🧠 Mind Body Connection

The Red Queen

kirjoittanut Matt Ridley • 1993

Sex exists to outrun parasites. From peacock tails to human jealousy, everything follows.

4.05

17 000+

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🦚 Sexual Selection 🐝 Sociobiology

The Red Queen

Sex exists to outrun parasites. From peacock tails to human jealousy, everything follows.

kirjoittanut Matt Ridley 1993 405 sivua

4.05

17 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🦚 Sexual Selection 🐝 Sociobiology

Thinking in Pictures

kirjoittanut Temple Grandin • 1995

A visual mind, shaped by autism, decoded animal fear and transformed the livestock industry.

4.10

17 000+

👁️ Visual Thinking 🔊 Sensory Processing 🧠 Neurodivergent Memoir

Thinking in Pictures

A visual mind, shaped by autism, decoded animal fear and transformed the livestock industry.

kirjoittanut Temple Grandin 1995 308 sivua

4.10

17 000+ arvostelua

👁️ Visual Thinking 🔊 Sensory Processing 🧠 Neurodivergent Memoir

Co-Intelligence

kirjoittanut Ethan Mollick • 2024

AI is an intern that never sleeps and sometimes lies. Managing it means rewriting the rules.

3.93

16 000+

🏢 Ai In The Workplace 🤝 Human-Ai Collaboration ⚙️ Workplace Automation

Immersiiviset

Co-Intelligence

AI is an intern that never sleeps and sometimes lies. Managing it means rewriting the rules.

kirjoittanut Ethan Mollick 2024 256 sivua

3.93

16 000+ arvostelua

🏢 Ai In The Workplace 🤝 Human-Ai Collaboration ⚙️ Workplace Automation

AI Superpowers

kirjoittanut Kai-Fu Lee • 2018

China and Silicon Valley are in an AI arms race. The first casualty: your job.

4.09

16 000+

🤖 Ai And Automation 🇨🇳 Chinese Technology 🌏 Us-China Tech Rivalry

AI Superpowers

China and Silicon Valley are in an AI arms race. The first casualty: your job.

kirjoittanut Kai-Fu Lee 2018 275 sivua

4.09

16 000+ arvostelua

🤖 Ai And Automation 🇨🇳 Chinese Technology 🌏 Us-China Tech Rivalry

The Denial of Death

kirjoittanut Ernest Becker • 1973

Every culture, religion, and heroic ambition is built on a single buried fear: your own death.

4.05

16 000+

🧠 Existential Psychology 💀 Death Anxiety 📚 Existentialism

The Denial of Death

Every culture, religion, and heroic ambition is built on a single buried fear: your own death.

kirjoittanut Ernest Becker 1973 336 sivua

4.05

16 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Existential Psychology 💀 Death Anxiety 📚 Existentialism

Starry Messenger

kirjoittanut Neil deGrasse Tyson • 2022

From orbit, borders vanish, along with our excuses about race, risk, and how we govern.

4.11

15 000+

Starry Messenger

From orbit, borders vanish, along with our excuses about race, risk, and how we govern.

kirjoittanut Neil deGrasse Tyson 2022 279 sivua

4.11

15 000+ arvostelua

Where Good Ideas Come From

kirjoittanut Steven Johnson • 2010

Breakthroughs come from networks, borrowed parts, and gradual insights, not lone geniuses.

3.99

15 000+

🧩 Innovation Theory 🕸️ Network Theory 🍀 Serendipity

Where Good Ideas Come From

Breakthroughs come from networks, borrowed parts, and gradual insights, not lone geniuses.

kirjoittanut Steven Johnson 2010 340 sivua

3.99

15 000+ arvostelua

🧩 Innovation Theory 🕸️ Network Theory 🍀 Serendipity

The Coming Wave

kirjoittanut Mustafa Suleyman • 2023

AI and biotech are coming. They can't be stopped. They can't be contained. Catastrophe or dystopia?

3.80

15 000+

🏛️ Tech Policy ⚠️ Existential Risk 🤖 Ai Safety

The Coming Wave

AI and biotech are coming. They can't be stopped. They can't be contained. Catastrophe or dystopia?

kirjoittanut Mustafa Suleyman 2023 332 sivua

3.80

15 000+ arvostelua

🏛️ Tech Policy ⚠️ Existential Risk 🤖 Ai Safety

The Mythical Man-Month

kirjoittanut Frederick P. Brooks Jr. • 1975

A late software project plus more programmers equals a later one. The essays that proved it.

4.01

15 000+

🏗️ Software Project Management 🧱 Systems Design 🎨 Conceptual Design

The Mythical Man-Month

A late software project plus more programmers equals a later one. The essays that proved it.

kirjoittanut Frederick P. Brooks Jr. 1975 322 sivua

4.01

15 000+ arvostelua

🏗️ Software Project Management 🧱 Systems Design 🎨 Conceptual Design

The Female Brain

kirjoittanut Louann Brizendine • 2006

What you call her personality is her neurochemistry: a brain rebuilt by hormones across lifetime.

3.85

14 000+

🧠 Brain Sex Differences 🧬 Hormones And Behavior 🤝 Attachment Science

Immersiiviset

The Female Brain

What you call her personality is her neurochemistry: a brain rebuilt by hormones across lifetime.

kirjoittanut Louann Brizendine 2006 280 sivua

3.85

14 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Brain Sex Differences 🧬 Hormones And Behavior 🤝 Attachment Science

Social Intelligence

kirjoittanut Daniel Goleman • 2006

The brain has a social operating system. Relationships shape it; isolation breaks it.

3.99

14 000+

🧠 Social Neuroscience 🔬 Relationship Science 🦠 Emotional Contagion

Social Intelligence

The brain has a social operating system. Relationships shape it; isolation breaks it.

kirjoittanut Daniel Goleman 2006 403 sivua

3.99

14 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Social Neuroscience 🔬 Relationship Science 🦠 Emotional Contagion

World Order

kirjoittanut Henry Kissinger • 2014

Europe invented the state system; now every civilization advances a rival blueprint for world order.

4.04

14 000+

🌍 International Order ⚖️ Balance Of Power 📜 Diplomatic History

World Order

Europe invented the state system; now every civilization advances a rival blueprint for world order.

kirjoittanut Henry Kissinger 2014 420 sivua

4.04

14 000+ arvostelua

🌍 International Order ⚖️ Balance Of Power 📜 Diplomatic History

The Rational Optimist

kirjoittanut Matt Ridley • 2010

Trade, not genius, drives human progress. Two centuries of data, and why the pessimists always lose.

3.97

13 000+

🤝 Free Trade 📜 Economic History 🌟 Human Progress

The Rational Optimist

Trade, not genius, drives human progress. Two centuries of data, and why the pessimists always lose.

kirjoittanut Matt Ridley 2010 448 sivua

3.97

13 000+ arvostelua

🤝 Free Trade 📜 Economic History 🌟 Human Progress

Irresistible

kirjoittanut Adam Alter • 2017

The apps in your pocket are as carefully engineered for addiction as any casino game.

3.85

12 000+

🔄 Behavioral Addiction 📱 Tech Addiction 👀 Attention Economy

Irresistible

The apps in your pocket are as carefully engineered for addiction as any casino game.

kirjoittanut Adam Alter 2017 368 sivua

3.85

12 000+ arvostelua

🔄 Behavioral Addiction 📱 Tech Addiction 👀 Attention Economy

The Second Machine Age

kirjoittanut Erik Brynjolfsson • 2014

Kodak employed 145,000. Instagram: 15. The economics that explains both, and what comes next.

3.91

12 000+

🖥️ Digital Economy 🏭 Automation And Jobs 💼 Future Of Work

Immersiiviset

The Second Machine Age

Kodak employed 145,000. Instagram: 15. The economics that explains both, and what comes next.

kirjoittanut Erik Brynjolfsson 2014 320 sivua

3.91

12 000+ arvostelua

🖥️ Digital Economy 🏭 Automation And Jobs 💼 Future Of Work

The Moral Animal

kirjoittanut Robert Wright • 1994

Our noblest impulses and our ugliest desires share one source: millions of years of evolution.

4.08

12 000+

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 👤 Human Nature 🐒 Behavioral Evolution

The Moral Animal

Our noblest impulses and our ugliest desires share one source: millions of years of evolution.

kirjoittanut Robert Wright 1994 467 sivua

4.08

12 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 👤 Human Nature 🐒 Behavioral Evolution

Why People Believe Weird Things

kirjoittanut Michael Shermer • 1997

The smarter you are, the better you are at defending beliefs reason never built.

3.86

9 000+

🔍 Skeptical Inquiry 🔬 Pseudoscience 🧠 Cognitive Biases

Why People Believe Weird Things

The smarter you are, the better you are at defending beliefs reason never built.

kirjoittanut Michael Shermer 1997 384 sivua

3.86

9 000+ arvostelua

🔍 Skeptical Inquiry 🔬 Pseudoscience 🧠 Cognitive Biases

The Marshmallow Test

kirjoittanut Walter Mischel • 2014

Willpower isn't character; it's a cognitive skill. A four-year-old with a marshmallow proved it.

3.72

9 000+

🍬 Delay Of Gratification 🧠 Self-Regulation ⚡ Impulse Control

The Marshmallow Test

Willpower isn't character; it's a cognitive skill. A four-year-old with a marshmallow proved it.

kirjoittanut Walter Mischel 2014 336 sivua

3.72

9 000+ arvostelua

🍬 Delay Of Gratification 🧠 Self-Regulation ⚡ Impulse Control

Mielen ja suoliston yhteys

kirjoittanut Emeran Mayer • 2015

Your gut and brain are talking. The trillions of microbes between them are running the show.

3.76

9 000+

🧠 Gut-Brain Axis 🦠 Microbiome Science 🥗 Gut Health

Mielen ja suoliston yhteys

Your gut and brain are talking. The trillions of microbes between them are running the show.

kirjoittanut Emeran Mayer 2015 256 sivua

3.76

9 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Gut-Brain Axis 🦠 Microbiome Science 🥗 Gut Health

The Vagina Bible

kirjoittanut Jennifer Gunter • 2019

The wellness industry built an empire on vaginal shame. An OB/GYN dismantles it with science.

4.34

9 000+

👩 Womens Health 🔍 Medical Myth Busting 📖 Body Literacy

The Vagina Bible

The wellness industry built an empire on vaginal shame. An OB/GYN dismantles it with science.

kirjoittanut Jennifer Gunter 2019 416 sivua

4.34

9 000+ arvostelua

👩 Womens Health 🔍 Medical Myth Busting 📖 Body Literacy

Magic Pill

kirjoittanut Johann Hari • 2024

Weight-loss drugs finally work. That they're needed at all indicts the food system they bypass.

4.26

9 000+

🏥 Obesity Epidemic 🏭 Ultra-Processed Foods 🧠 Appetite Regulation

Magic Pill

Weight-loss drugs finally work. That they're needed at all indicts the food system they bypass.

kirjoittanut Johann Hari 2024 320 sivua

4.26

9 000+ arvostelua

🏥 Obesity Epidemic 🏭 Ultra-Processed Foods 🧠 Appetite Regulation

Letters from an Astrophysicist

kirjoittanut Neil deGrasse Tyson • 2019

The universe doesn't care about your opinions. An astrophysicist's letters on why that's liberating.

4.06

8 000+

🎙️ Science Communication 🌌 Cosmic Perspective 🔍 Scientific Skepticism

Letters from an Astrophysicist

The universe doesn't care about your opinions. An astrophysicist's letters on why that's liberating.

kirjoittanut Neil deGrasse Tyson 2019 272 sivua

4.06

8 000+ arvostelua

🎙️ Science Communication 🌌 Cosmic Perspective 🔍 Scientific Skepticism

Consciousness Explained

kirjoittanut Daniel C. Dennett • 1991

Consciousness has no central theater. Your brain runs parallel drafts, and the self is a fiction.

3.90

8 000+

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🧱 Eliminative Materialism 💻 Computational Mind

Consciousness Explained

Consciousness has no central theater. Your brain runs parallel drafts, and the self is a fiction.

kirjoittanut Daniel C. Dennett 1991 530 sivua

3.90

8 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🧱 Eliminative Materialism 💻 Computational Mind

Storytelling with Data

kirjoittanut Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic • 2015

A repeatable process for turning messy spreadsheets into clear charts that drive action.

4.38

8 000+

🖥️ Data Visualization 💼 Business Communication 📊 Data Storytelling

Storytelling with Data

A repeatable process for turning messy spreadsheets into clear charts that drive action.

kirjoittanut Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic 2015 288 sivua

4.38

8 000+ arvostelua

🖥️ Data Visualization 💼 Business Communication 📊 Data Storytelling

Master Switch

kirjoittanut Tim Wu • 2010

Telephone, radio, film, TV: each began open and ended a monopoly. The internet is next.

3.89

8 000+

🏢 Media Monopolies 📜 Information History 🔄 Technological Cycles

Master Switch

Telephone, radio, film, TV: each began open and ended a monopoly. The internet is next.

kirjoittanut Tim Wu 2010 368 sivua

3.89

8 000+ arvostelua

🏢 Media Monopolies 📜 Information History 🔄 Technological Cycles

The Real Happy Pill

kirjoittanut Anders Hansen • 2016

Your brain evolved to move all day. Here's what happens when you give it that.

3.97

7 000+

🧠 Exercise And Brain Health 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🔄 Neuroplasticity

The Real Happy Pill

Your brain evolved to move all day. Here's what happens when you give it that.

kirjoittanut Anders Hansen 2016 233 sivua

3.97

7 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Exercise And Brain Health 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🔄 Neuroplasticity

The Secret Wisdom of Nature

kirjoittanut Peter Wohlleben • 2017

Why a wolf can reroute a river, and salmon feed the forest: nature's invisible connections.

4.05

7 000+

The Secret Wisdom of Nature

Why a wolf can reroute a river, and salmon feed the forest: nature's invisible connections.

kirjoittanut Peter Wohlleben 2017 272 sivua

4.05

7 000+ arvostelua

The Art of Deception

kirjoittanut Kevin D. Mitnick • 2001

How a hacker gets past any firewall by targeting people, and how to stop it.

3.76

7 000+

🎭 Social Engineering 🧠 Psychological Manipulation 🛡️ Security Awareness

The Art of Deception

How a hacker gets past any firewall by targeting people, and how to stop it.

kirjoittanut Kevin D. Mitnick 2001 368 sivua

3.76

7 000+ arvostelua

🎭 Social Engineering 🧠 Psychological Manipulation 🛡️ Security Awareness

The Spirit Level

kirjoittanut Richard G. Wilkinson • 2009

Inequality sickens and divides. In rich countries, the gap matters more than the wealth itself.

4.13

7 000+

💸 Income Inequality 🏥 Public Health 🤝 Social Trust

The Spirit Level

Inequality sickens and divides. In rich countries, the gap matters more than the wealth itself.

kirjoittanut Richard G. Wilkinson 2009 402 sivua

4.13

7 000+ arvostelua

💸 Income Inequality 🏥 Public Health 🤝 Social Trust

Finding Flow

kirjoittanut Mihály Csíkszentmihályi • 1995

Happiness is the wrong target. Between boredom and anxiety is where you come alive.

3.90

7 000+

🔬 Positive Psychology 🎯 Intrinsic Motivation 🧠 Attention Management

Finding Flow

Happiness is the wrong target. Between boredom and anxiety is where you come alive.

kirjoittanut Mihály Csíkszentmihályi 1995 181 sivua

3.90

7 000+ arvostelua

🔬 Positive Psychology 🎯 Intrinsic Motivation 🧠 Attention Management

Clean Architecture

kirjoittanut Robert C. Martin • 2017

Why your database should never be the center: building business logic that outlives its frameworks.

4.21

7 000+

🏛️ Software Architecture 🔗 Dependency Management 🧱 Component Architecture

Clean Architecture

Why your database should never be the center: building business logic that outlives its frameworks.

kirjoittanut Robert C. Martin 2017 432 sivua

4.21

7 000+ arvostelua

🏛️ Software Architecture 🔗 Dependency Management 🧱 Component Architecture

Digital Gold

kirjoittanut Nathaniel Popper • 2015

A currency invented by a ghost, adopted by drug dealers, and pursued by Wall Street billionaires.

4.14

6 000+

💰 Cryptocurrency History 💳 Fintech 📰 Tech Journalism

Digital Gold

A currency invented by a ghost, adopted by drug dealers, and pursued by Wall Street billionaires.

kirjoittanut Nathaniel Popper 2015 435 sivua

4.14

6 000+ arvostelua

💰 Cryptocurrency History 💳 Fintech 📰 Tech Journalism

Wizard

kirjoittanut Marc J. Seifer • 1996

Electrified the world, outsmarted by rivals, bankrupted by a giant tower: the Nikola Tesla story.

3.73

6 000+

📝 Inventor Biography ⚡ History Of Electricity ⚔️ War Of Currents

Wizard

Electrified the world, outsmarted by rivals, bankrupted by a giant tower: the Nikola Tesla story.

kirjoittanut Marc J. Seifer 1996 678 sivua

3.73

6 000+ arvostelua

📝 Inventor Biography ⚡ History Of Electricity ⚔️ War Of Currents

Alone Together

kirjoittanut Sherry Turkle • 2011

Robots comfort the elderly, screens raise children. What we lose when machines mediate intimacy.

3.62

6 000+

🤖 Social Robotics 📱 Digital Isolation 🎭 Online Identity

Alone Together

Robots comfort the elderly, screens raise children. What we lose when machines mediate intimacy.

kirjoittanut Sherry Turkle 2011 384 sivua

3.62

6 000+ arvostelua

🤖 Social Robotics 📱 Digital Isolation 🎭 Online Identity

Until the End of Time

kirjoittanut Brian Greene • 2020

The universe is winding down, yet it made you. Why, from quarks to consciousness.

4.04

6 000+

🌌 Big History 🌡️ Thermodynamics 🧬 Origins Of Life

Until the End of Time

The universe is winding down, yet it made you. Why, from quarks to consciousness.

kirjoittanut Brian Greene 2020 428 sivua

4.04

6 000+ arvostelua

🌌 Big History 🌡️ Thermodynamics 🧬 Origins Of Life

The Revenge of Geography

kirjoittanut Robert D. Kaplan • 2012

Three dead geographers predicted today's conflicts. Their maps show what comes next.

3.79

6 000+

🌍 Geopolitics 🗺️ Geographical Determinism 📜 Classical Geopolitics

The Revenge of Geography

Three dead geographers predicted today's conflicts. Their maps show what comes next.

kirjoittanut Robert D. Kaplan 2012 448 sivua

3.79

6 000+ arvostelua

🌍 Geopolitics 🗺️ Geographical Determinism 📜 Classical Geopolitics

How Civil Wars Start

kirjoittanut Barbara F. Walter • 2022

America is now an anocracy, the regime type three times likelier to fracture into civil war.

4.24

6 000+

🔬 Civil War Studies 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🌐 Comparative Politics

How Civil Wars Start

America is now an anocracy, the regime type three times likelier to fracture into civil war.

kirjoittanut Barbara F. Walter 2022 320 sivua

4.24

6 000+ arvostelua

🔬 Civil War Studies 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🌐 Comparative Politics

The Science of Fear

kirjoittanut Daniel Gardner • 2008

Life has never been safer, but our ancient brains keep us afraid of the wrong things.

3.96

5 000+

🎯 Risk Perception 🧠 Cognitive Biases 😱 Psychology Of Fear

The Science of Fear

Life has never been safer, but our ancient brains keep us afraid of the wrong things.

kirjoittanut Daniel Gardner 2008 339 sivua

3.96

5 000+ arvostelua

🎯 Risk Perception 🧠 Cognitive Biases 😱 Psychology Of Fear

The Age of A.I. and Our Human Future

kirjoittanut Henry Kissinger • 2021

A new intelligence is reshaping knowledge, strategy, and order; it is an actor, not a tool.

3.43

5 000+

🌍 Ai Geopolitics ⚖️ Ai Ethics 🧠 Machine Learning

The Age of A.I. and Our Human Future

A new intelligence is reshaping knowledge, strategy, and order; it is an actor, not a tool.

kirjoittanut Henry Kissinger 2021 205 sivua

3.43

5 000+ arvostelua

🌍 Ai Geopolitics ⚖️ Ai Ethics 🧠 Machine Learning

Life Ascending

kirjoittanut Nick Lane • 2009

Evolution's hardest problems, from life's origin to death itself, all have a chemical answer.

4.13

5 000+

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🔄 Evolutionary Transitions 🌋 Origin Of Life

Life Ascending

Evolution's hardest problems, from life's origin to death itself, all have a chemical answer.

kirjoittanut Nick Lane 2009 352 sivua

4.13

5 000+ arvostelua

🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🔄 Evolutionary Transitions 🌋 Origin Of Life

Building Microservices

kirjoittanut Sam Newman • 2014

Break the monolith: how to carve out autonomous services that deploy fast and evolve independently.

4.22

5 000+

🧩 Microservices 🌐 Distributed Systems 🏗️ Software Architecture

Building Microservices

Break the monolith: how to carve out autonomous services that deploy fast and evolve independently.

kirjoittanut Sam Newman 2014 473 sivua

4.22

5 000+ arvostelua

🧩 Microservices 🌐 Distributed Systems 🏗️ Software Architecture

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